Heck's Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science Aleksandr I

Aleksandr I

Its 256 color plates have preserved for each succeeding generation a wide- ranging selection of outstanding posters from the turn of the century

ancient chinese

making it as interesting to read as it is to browse

Heck's Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science Aleksandr IBased on J. G. Heck's Bilder Atlas zum Convenations Lexicon, published in German in the nineteenth century, the Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art was a monumental six volume compilation of illustrations and information, covering an enormous range of subjects, from architecture to zoology. Among its most remarkable features were the thousands of superb steel engravings, comprising one of the most extensive pictorial archives